10M downloads in, Google takes YouTube Kids app international with launch in UK and Ireland.
YouTube has launched its family friendly video app YouTube Kids in Ireland, with content from Irish creators alongside established favourites such as Peppa Pig and The Magic Roundabout. It’s designed to give parents an easier time when deciding what their kids should watch, and aims to be free of potentially adult-orientated programming.
With a bright and playful design, the application comes with larger images and bold icons, making it easier and faster for little fingers to navigate. The app has been downloaded more than 10 million times in the U.S., and although it has been generally well received, ...

10M downloads in, Google takes YouTube Kids app international with launch in UK and Ireland.
YouTube has launched its family friendly video app YouTube Kids in Ireland, with content from Irish creators alongside established favourites such as Peppa Pig and The Magic Roundabout. It’s designed to give parents an easier time when deciding what their kids should watch, and aims to be free of potentially adult-orientated programming. With a bright and playful design, the application comes with larger images and bold icons, making it easier and faster for little fingers to navigate.
The app has been downloaded more than 10 million times in the U.S., and although it has been generally well received, ...

Google Ads Executive Mohan Hops Over to YouTube (Where He Kind of Was Already).
YouTube has appointed Neal Mohan, a longtime Google exec, to lead product and design for the No. 1 Internet video service, the company announced Wednesday. As head of Google’s display and mobile advertising products, Mohan oversaw the Google Display Network, AdSense, Admob, DoubleClick, Ad Exchange, Wildfire, InviteMedia and Admeld. Google is folding the analytics division, which offers tools for ads measurement, into its display operations — a sign that the search giant sees measurement as core to its online ads business (which is, like YouTube, going up against Facebook).
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10M downloads in, Google takes YouTube Kids app international with launch in UK and Ireland.
YouTube has launched its family friendly video app YouTube Kids in Ireland, with content from Irish creators alongside established favourites such as Peppa Pig and The Magic Roundabout. It’s designed to give parents an easier time when deciding what their kids should watch, and aims to be free of potentially adult-orientated programming.
The app has been downloaded more than 10 million times in the U.S., and although it has been generally well received, there have been concerns in the past around the type of ads and videos the service throws up. It’s had some tweaks in design, with larger icons and ...

First Impressions Of YouTube’s New Music App.
Following today’s launch of the anticipated YouTube Music application, music video streaming app Vevo, which distributes videos to YouTube and counts Google as an investor, is also introducing a new experience of its own.If you like turning on Pandora and letting the personalized music play, with mostly stuff you’re probably going to like, the YouTube twist is better.In a feature it hopes will be a key selling point, YouTube Music will create non-stop stations tailored to users, who can fine-tune how much variety they want.
The company today is rolling out a completely revamped mobile app, initially on iOS, which reimagines the Vevo application ...

Apple Music aims for beat on Android phones.
YouTube is growing into a mansion with many distinct rooms. The video platform announced Thursday that it’s finally releasing YouTube Music, an app that will let users stream YouTube’s entire catalog right from their phone.
“Welcome Android users to @AppleMusic,” Apple senior vice president of internet software and services Eddie Cue said in a message fired off at Twitter. The latest is YouTube Music, which seeks to capitalize on the video site’s massive music catalogue and convince more subscribers to jump on board YouTube Red. He credited a human curation element — actual people who fashion playlists — for creating listening ...

Google takes on Apple and Spotify with free YouTube music streaming app (although you’ll have to pay to get rid of the ads).
In a feature it hopes will be a key selling point, YouTube Music will create non-stop stations tailored to users, who can fine-tune how much variety they want.The video platform announced Thursday that it’s finally releasing YouTube Music, an app that will let users stream YouTube’s entire catalog right from their phone.YouTube on Thursday entered the increasingly crowded field of music streaming, hoping to reach a new audience through a user-friendly service that seizes on the video giant’s vast variety.The adroit and android enthusiasm targeted towards ...

Google takes on Apple and Spotify with free YouTube music streaming app (although you’ll have to pay to get rid of the ads).
In a feature it hopes will be a key selling point, YouTube Music will create non-stop stations tailored to users, who can fine-tune how much variety they want.The video platform announced Thursday that it’s finally releasing YouTube Music, an app that will let users stream YouTube’s entire catalog right from their phone.YouTube on Thursday entered the increasingly crowded field of music streaming, hoping to reach a new audience through a user-friendly service that seizes on the video giant’s vast variety.The adroit and android enthusiasm targeted towards ...

Binge on: T-Mobile exempts streaming video from some data caps.
T-Mobile USA will exempt a list of video streaming services from monthly data caps with Binge On, a feature that could let some subscribers watch more clips and shows without buying a more expensive plan. PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — The country’s third-largest wireless carrier is making a play to woo customers from Verizon and AT&T- and it’s all about streaming video.The Bellevue-based cellphone service provider said that watching video on Netflix, Hulu, HBO, WatchESPN and about 20 other apps no longer would count against mobile data usage.NEW YORK (AP) — Streaming video from Netflix, HBO and other leading services will no ...

New York Times Magazine Leaps Into Virtual Reality.
YouTube announced two new features Thursday for its Android app that expand the video site’s use of virtual reality, giving the new technology its biggest platform yet. You won’t have to travel to war-torn places for this, thanks to the New York Times’ new virtual reality app that transports the readers(virtually only) to the story locales. To view it, a user would call up a virtual reality video on the YouTube app, click a button on the video for VR mode, and place the phone in Alphabet Inc’s “Cardboard” device, a handheld gadget made from the standard box material that creates a VR viewing experience.
That night, the Times celebrated ...